A conservationist has opened a criminal case alleging tonnes of road-building waste were dumped beside the Baakens River, burying kingfisher nests and potentially killing eggs and chicks during breeding season.
South Africa’s devastating gender-based violence crisis demands early classroom intervention rather than reactive legal measures. Such initiatives have been successful in several countries, including Sierra Leone.
In November, you will make the choice that directly shapes the reality in which you live for the next five years, and that choice is starkly binary: vote for governments that pull our municipalities back from the brink, or vote to continue down the path of chaos and corruption.
New sanctions against South Africa and the placing of white crosses on the National Mall in Washington, DC last week speak to a deep connection between white nationalist politics of both South Africa and the US.
South Africa is battered by violence, corruption and division. Yet beneath the grief, a stubborn spirit still breathes — refusing to surrender hope and its future.
The young mountain bike rider’s stellar Go2Sea performance earned him more than applause: a bike of his own and support to pursue his racing ambitions.
Decades before Ernst Roets lobbied the US, a little-known Kempton Park woman linked the AWB to global neo-Nazis – a story that sheds light on international support for the farm murder cause.
From a dusty mining camp thrown together after the discovery of gold in 1886, Johannesburg grew at breakneck speed into SA’s economic powerhouse. As the city turns 140, Daily Maverick looks back at its extraordinary beginnings, the city it has become and the people trying to breathe some new life…